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Initiated by German President Christian Wulff, the BürgerForum (CitizensForum) 2011 was designed to get German citizens from all over the country involved in identifying the most important challenges currently facing German society. The forum is a multi-layered process using multiple forms of discussion and deliberation on different levels of government...

The Citizens' Dialogue on the Future of Health Care in Canada was a series of 12 citizens' deliberations -- involving 489 Canadian citizens and held from January-March 2002 -- about Canadian public health care policy. The deliberations were organized by the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada,...

Problems and Purpose Various federal departments and agencies of Canada funded the ChoiceWork Dialogue to learn more about their citizens’ expectations of governments, the private sector, and their communities. The goals that Canadian societies seek to achieve are detailed in a “social contract.” When leaders planned for post-war policies after...

CommonGround: The First Five Years: A Dialogue on Early Childhood in New Mexico, was a project organized by Viewpoint Learning to hold public deliberations -- on the topic of early childhood development and education -- among leaders and citizens of the U.S. state of New Mexico. The deliberations were intended...

The ResilientAfrica Network carried out a Deliberative Poll in Tamale Ghana to provide community driven responses to challenges of sanitation, hygiene and food security in the region. The Poll gathered 208 participants sampled randomly from different households and within households, and they met over two days with support from experts...